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The Moon on Sunday, October 19, 1952: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on October 19, 1952Waxing Crescent

Sunday 19 October 1952390,295 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 19, 1952, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
390,295 km242,518 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 19, 1952 is on Saturday, November 1, 1952 at 23:10 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, October 18, 1952 at 22:42 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, October 18, 195222:42
First Quarter (after)Sunday, October 26, 195204:04

The Moon around October 19

More about this date

Sunday, October 19, 1952 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 18, 1952 to the new moon of November 17, 1952, a cycle of 29.59 days.